tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25150148.post8516243717816515609..comments2023-08-26T05:52:30.292-07:00Comments on Metaplasmus: This Just In: E-Voting is Bad!Chardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02566094320816743175noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25150148.post-78561832553039368632006-12-04T23:19:00.000-08:002006-12-04T23:19:00.000-08:00I read somewhere today (http://www.sacbee.com/stat...I read somewhere today (http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/2006_12_01.html) that Senator Feinstein is going to push for legislation requiring paper trails and audits.<br /><br />Gotta love those "San Francisco values."<br /><br />And I realize that ours is a representative form of democracy, but it relies on fair and accurate elections of those representatives. So instead of "democracy," I should have said "democratic system" or something similar.Chardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02566094320816743175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25150148.post-81410680150840435782006-12-02T01:04:00.000-08:002006-12-02T01:04:00.000-08:00Actually, optical scanning machines are probably j...Actually, optical scanning machines are probably just as easy to attack as are the voting machines themselves. In fact, it's more efficient to mess with the machines that tally the vote than to mess with the machines that take the vote in the first place.<br /><br />The only answer is to make sure that whatever system we use is 100% auditable. That means paper trails and major jail time for anyone tampering with or disposing of the paper trail. And, oh yeah, we need to randomly audit some percentage of the vote for every election, just to make sure everything's on the up and up.<br /><br />But even we've fixed THAT problem, we'll still have problems with Democrats voting dead people and Republicans preventing people from voting altogether. Uff-da! It's all enough to make me want to go live in a rusty single-wide somewhere in the desert and drink heavily for the rest of my days.<br /><br />(By the way, we don't live in a Democracy, we live in a Representative Republic. But I'm sure you already knew that...)Sarettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10550375253785471510noreply@blogger.com